{"id":2268,"date":"2023-10-20T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T21:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T21:32:35","slug":"five-for-friday-october-20-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-october-20-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; October 20, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been a week &#8211; but the internet has entertained me just a bit. Here are a few things I found worth sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An interesting article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/10\/biden-israel-tel-aviv-trip-netanyahu\/675671\/\">Atlantic this week on how Biden is approaching the conflict in Israel<\/a>. As I&#8217;ve advocated before &#8211; start with <em>trust<\/em>, and then bring on the pressure (or, disappoint people at a level they can absorb)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I really liked this article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/carlosschults.net\/en\/fivel-levels-readable-code\/\">Five Levels of Code Readability<\/a>. I&#8217;ve read a lot of code in my career, including thousands of lines of hungarian notation c and c++, so I appreciate all efforts to make code more readable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.substack.com\/p\/i-can-see-you\">tech interviews<\/a> several weeks ago on my other blog &#8211; but this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.devdetails.com\/p\/algorithms-in-interviews-suck-cut\">stopping the algorithm madness in interviews<\/a> is spot-on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A lot of points in this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2023\/09\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-leave-a-bad-job\">Why It&#8217;s So Hard to Leave a Bad Job<\/a> resonated well with me. I also feel like the timing of the article isn&#8217;t &#8230;great, as it&#8217;s probably harder to find a new role (a <em>good <\/em>role) now than I recall in my career.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I just wrapped up Season 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wheel_of_Time_(TV_series)\">Wheel of Time<\/a> and enjoyed it. It&#8217;s an interesting story and thought the visuals and story were fun. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week &#8211; see you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a week &#8211; but the internet has entertained me just a bit. Here are a few things I found worth sharing. That&#8217;s it for this week &#8211; see you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}